GameStop will soon be providing its shoppers a reason to stare at their phones instead of the store’s game-lined walls, courtesy of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, the two companies announced today. READ MORE

The IGF today revealed the Main Competition finalists for the annual festival’s 17th celebration of indie games awards, including The Talos Principle, Push Me Pull You, Shovel Knight, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. READ MORE

Anyone can throw together a list of the year’s best games. All it takes is a sunny disposition and a thesaurus with one of those sticky bookmark tabs on the entry for “good.” To tell you about the dregs of gaming, though, that takes a different class of human being. A Southern gentleman. A cyborg. A dinosaur aficionado. A racist. That man is Captain Tobias Abigail Bruckner. READ MORE